Tunisian Prime Minister, Hichem Mechichi, affirmed Tunisia’s commitment to keeping his country’s common borders with Libya and Algeria open, whatever the circumstances.
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Tunisia-Libya border reopens after seven-month closure over virus
Travellers began to cross between Tunisia and Libya again on Saturday after a seven-month border closure due to novel coronavirus restrictions was lifted.
Read More »Tunisia Opens Land Border With Libya, Talks on Flight Resumption Under Way
Tunisia is opening its land border with Libya in accordance with the bilateral sanitary protocol signed on Wednesday, which envisions measures to combat the spread of COVID-19, the Tunisian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Read More »Tunisia approves reopening of Libya land border to passengers
Tunisian Prime Minister, Hichem Michichi, announced that he had granted permission to his country’s authorities to open the Ras Jedir border crossing with Libya.
Read More »Libya, Tunisia reach initial agreement to reopen borders and resume flights
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Accord (GNA), on Wednesday, said it had reached an agreement in principle with its Tunisian counterpart to map out an urgent, unified health protocol between both countries, to be followed shortly afterwards by the reopening of air space between the …
Read More »EU to help draft Libya’s strategy on border security
The EU will help write Libya’s national strategy of border security and management, according to an internal EU document.
Read More »The Volatile Tunisia-Libya Border: Between Tunisia’s Security Policy and Libya’s Militia Factions
The 2010–2011 uprisings disrupted a long-standing informal arrangement governing border trade between Tunisia and Libya. Over the following decade, as Libya disintegrated into mutually hostile fiefdoms, Tunisia maintained its unity, transitioned from authoritarian to democratic rule, and increasingly shunned official dealings with competing Libyan power centers. As such, grassroots cross-border …
Read More »Tripoli Interior Ministry ready to reopen Libya-Tunisia borders, subject to anti-Corona health measures
Libya’s Tripoli based Interior Ministry announced yesterday that it was ready to reopen the country’s borders with Tunisia, subject to adequate preventative health measures being put in place.
Read More »Hundreds of Tunisians stranded by coronavirus in Libya ‘force their way home’
Hundreds of Tunisians stranded for weeks in war-torn Libya due to the coronavirus have returned home after forcing their way through a border crossing, the UN and aid groups said on Tuesday.
Read More »Mitiga Airport suspends air traffic after hit by Haftar’s militias
Update: Flights resumed after a brief suspension Air traffic has been suspended once again at Mitiga International Airport due to its incessant bombing, a statement on the airport’s Facebook page says. The media office of the Volcano of Rage Operation had confirmed earlier today, that the airport and the area adjacent …
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